NOVEMBER 23, 2011 Most political battles are won by seizing the center. Anyone who believes otherwise ignores the electoral experience of the last 50 years. By MICHAEL MEDVED Conservative resistance to Mitt Romney’s nomination increasingly emphasizes electability as much as ideology, concentrating on his perceived weaknesses as a candidate along with an inconsistent approach to […]
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NOVEMBER 22, 2011 Why the Super Committee Failed Democrats were unwilling to agree to anything less than $1 trillion in tax hikes, and unwilling to offer meaningful reforms for health-care entitlement spending. By JEB HENSARLING All now know that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction has failed to reach an agreement. While there will
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NOVEMBER 15, 2011 The new economy: Tax hikes for all, tax relief for the well-connected, campaign contributions for the politicians. By WILLIAM MCGURN New York gave us banks too big to fail. Washington bequeathed us Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Still, when it comes to crony capitalism, no one quite matches Chicago. Soon the Illinois
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Matthew Continetti November 7, 2011, Vol. 17, No. 08 That slight dizziness you’re feeling is a contact high from the clouds of left-wing nostalgia in New York City and Washington. The anarchists, antiglobalization activists, student radicals, and sympathetic journalists gathered at Occupy Wall Street desperately are trying to recapture
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CAROLINA JOURNAL John Hood’s Daily Journal Carolina, Look North By John Hood , John Locke Foundation Monday 14th, 2011 RALEIGH – The Old North State’s economy is in a shambles. The New North State’s economy isn’t. North Carolina, the Old North State, has posted the nation’s weakest recovery from the 2007-08 recession, according to the
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NOVEMBER 8, 2011 Like the ’90s Never Happened A former New Democrat known for his centrist economic policies, Bill Clinton now favors vast new government spending and higher taxes. By STEPHEN MOORE Bill Clinton ascended to the White House as a New Democrat, wisely repudiating what had been a quarter-century of big-government liberalism and embracing
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com We’re Still Not Cutting by Jim DeMint November 8, 2011 Congress refuses to face the fiscal crisis. Despite bipartisan promises to cut spending after the 2010 elections, Washington politicians are still voting to make the government even bigger and more expensive than ever. Don’t believe me? Even though the federal government is
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NOVEMBER 4, 2011 Inflation hits lower-income people especially hard. So why is the president ignoring rising food prices? By GEORGE MELLOAN Barack Obama spends much of his time these days running for re-election, campaigning as a populist, bashing millionaires and extolling the Occupy Wall Street movement. Although “populist” means different things to different people, the
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